merrow

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"I can't tell you that," the merrow answered.

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  1. A mermaid. An Irishman caught a merrow, with her … enchanted cap lying beside her. Baring-Gould, Myths of the Middle Ages, p. 505.

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  • "I can't tell you that," the merrow answered. —  Fairies and Folk of Ireland
  • "Ain't I had hell enough fer one day?" demanded the bartender, "what with gittin 'shot in the arm, an' gittin 'tried to be held up fer four dollars of Sam's debts, an' gittin 'laid out cold with a spittoon, an' gittin 'my glasses an' bottles all busted, an 'gittin' my place all shot up, an 'my merrow shot to hell, an' my kegs all shot holes in, without all you's hornin 'in an' drinkin 'up what little I got left? —  Prairie Flowers
  • We witnessed such a conclave, sitting in a close circle, face to face, waving their long antennæ; and as we watched, from the shadowy caves above another merrow appeared. —  Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
  • "There's parts of them," said the man merrow, "that's more like Cork than Cork itself, and there's other parts of them that's no more like —  Fairies and Folk of Ireland
 

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  1. from Irish moruach, moruadh, a mermaid, from muir, the sea: see mere.
 

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